27.4115, Calls: Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Phonetics, Semantics/Germany

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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:10:25
From: Hana Filip [hana.filip at gmail.com]
Subject: Coercion Across Linguistic Fields

Full Title: Coercion Across Linguistic Fields 

Date: 08-Mar-2017 - 10-Mar-2017
Location: Saarbrücken, Germany 
Contact Person: Hana Filip
Meeting Email: hana.filip at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Phonetics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2016 

Meeting Description:

This workshop takes place during the 39th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics
Society of Germany (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft) in
Saarbrücken.

Coercion is a process of reinterpretation triggered by a type mismatch between
an operator and its argument which is repaired by enriching the overt input
with implicit material, modulo context. Coercion is widespread across
different parts of the grammar, including not only semantics and pragmatics
(Asher 2011), but also morphology, syntax and phonology; its modeling in
computational linguistics raises non-trivial problems. In phonology, for
instance, coronal nasals [n], if followed by labial [np] or dorsal stops [nk],
are coerced as labial [mp] or dorsal [Nk] (Boersma 1998). Well-known, though
not yet well understood, are common meaning shifts between mass and count, and
parallel shifts between atelic and telic interpretations, which in English are
triggered by syntactic context, interacting with extra-linguistic context:
e.g., “?three waters” (mass-to-count) and “(?)swim three times”
(atelic-to-telic); “There’s too much apple in this fruit salad”
(count-to-mass) and “Bill ate the apple bit by bit for ten minutes (and still
didn’t finish it)” (telic-to-atelic). Resolving a type mismatch involves an
interaction of factors coming from different parts of the grammar (Booij
2010). Coercion is a highly powerful process, not any type of type mismatch
can be resolved, and the strategies for type mismatch resolution via coercion
seem to follow certain restricted paths. One of the outstanding puzzles
concerns the proper constraints on the value of a coercion operator. 

Suggested Topics: 

(i) Similarities and differences among coercion processes across different
parts of grammar
(ii) Mechanisms of coercion (e.g. type shifting and contextual enrichment) 
(iii) Constraints on coercion
(iv) Computational aspects of coercion resolution

Invited Speaker:  Nicholas Asher.

Targeted Participants:

This workshop will bring together scholars from different fields of
theoretical and computational linguistics with the aim of establishing
similarities/differences among different coercion processes in natural
language.

2nd Call for Papers:

(with a revised submission format)

Coercion Across Linguistic Fields (CALF)   
Workshop (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft)
Description:

Coercion is a process of reinterpretation triggered by a type mismatch between
an operator and its argument which is repaired by enriching the overt input
with implicit material, modulo context. Coercion is widespread across
different parts of the grammar, including not only semantics and pragmatics
(Asher 2011), but also morphology, syntax and phonology; its modeling in
computational linguistics raises non-trivial problems. In phonology, for
instance, coronal nasals [n], if followed by labial [np] or dorsal stops [nk],
are coerced as labial [mp] or dorsal [Nk] (Boersma 1998). Well-known, though
not yet well understood, are common meaning shifts between mass and  count,
and parallel shifts between atelic and telic interpretations, which in English
are triggered by syntactic context, interacting with extra-linguistic context:
e.g., “?three waters” (mass-to-count) and “(?)swim three times”
(atelic-to-telic); “There’s too much apple in this fruit salad”
(count-to-mass) and “Bill ate the apple bit by  bit for ten minutes (and still
didn’t finish it)” (telic-to-atelic).  Resolving a type mismatch involves an
interaction of factors coming from different parts of the grammar (Booij
2010). Coercion is a highly powerful process, not any type of type mismatch 
can be resolved, and the strategies for type mismatch resolution via coercion
seem to follow certain restricted paths. One of the outstanding puzzles
concerns the proper constraints on the value of a coercion operator. 

Submission Information: 

We invite papers addressing any theoretical and empirical aspects of coercion.
Abstracts should not exceed 1 page (not 2 pages as indicated in the first
call), including references and examples. 

They should be prepared either in latex or word according to the following
style files:

Latex: https://user.phil.hhu.de/~kallmeyer/latex_style_sheet_dgfs2017.zip
Word: https://user.phil.hhu.de/~kallmeyer/word-style-sheet_dgfs2017.zip

Latex is preferred since the workshop proceedings will be in latex.

Submissions of the pdf file along with all source files should be to
coercion2017 at gmail.com by October 25, 2016. In your message, specify the
following:

- Author name(s)
- Presentation title
- Institutional affiliation.

Presentations will be allotted 30 minute slots (including discussion).

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: October 25, 2016.
Notification of acceptance : October 29, 2016

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